About 2000 graduates of the Thirty Schools entered 179 colleges in the fall of 1936. It was obviously impossible for the college study staff to go to all these colleges to follow all students. Selection had to be made. This was done on the basis of three factors: (1) the number of graduates of the Thirty Schools enrolled; (2) types of colleges; (3) the degree of co-operation offered by the colleges to the Follow-up Staff. The colleges that were agreed upon its centers for intensive study are:

State Universities Ohio State University Oklahoma A. and M. College University of Oklahoma University of Michigan University of Wisconsin	Men's Colleges Amherst College Brown University Columbia University Dartmouth College Harvard University Massachusetts Institute of Technology Princeton University Williams College Yale University
Coeducational Endowed Collages and Universities Cornell University Swarthmore College University of Chicago University of Denver University of Pennsylvania University of Tulsa	Women's Colleges Bennington College Bryn Mawr College Mount Holyoke College Smith College Wellesley College

Many other colleges co-operated in the study by distributing questionnaires and by supplying the college observers with grades, instructors' reports, and other materials. Among the colleges thus assisting were: Iowa Stale College, University of Iowa, Antioch College, Drake University, Colgate University, Johns Hopkins University, Lehigh University, Wesleyan University (Connecticut), Barnard College, Connecticut College for Women, Mills College, Pembroke College, Radcliffe College, Sarah Lawrence College, and Simmons College. One hundred and twenty other colleges

willingly supplied grades and other information to the Follow-tip Staff upon request.

It was necessary to establish some just basis of comparison if the work of the graduates of the Thirty Schools was to he judged fairly. Since it was expected that they would be somewhat above the average college students in native ability, it would not do to compare their achievement with average performance. Therefore, a basis of comparison was established by matching, with utmost care, each graduate from the Thirty Schools with another student in the same college who had taken the prescribed courses, had graduated from some school not participating in the Study, and had met the usual entrance requirements. They were matched oil the basis of sex, age, race, scholastic aptitude scores, home and community background, interests, and probable future. For example, here is a boy----the son of a lawyer and it graduate of one of the large, public schools in the Study----eighteen years of age, from a home and community which afford cultural and economic advantages, unusually able in mathematics and planning to become an engineer. As his "matchee" the Follow-up Staff selected in the same college a boy, eighteen years of age, who had a similar background, the same vocational interest and scholastic aptitude, birt who had met the customary entrance requirements.

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